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The World Backwards: Russian Futurist Books 1912-16 / Susan P. Compton
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REF.AM.1986
136 p. : ill. (some color) ; 25 cm
1978
Artists' books -- History., Futurist, Graphic arts -- History -- 20th century -- Themes, motives., illustrations, lithographs, publications
A study mainly concerned with futurist books and periodicals published between 1912 and 1916 in Moscow and St. Petersburg that not only form landmarks in the history of twentieth-century literature, art, and graphic design, but throw light on the development of poetry and art in the rich period preceding the Russian revolutions of 1917. --from Introduction
Table of Contents:
Introduction --
Poets and Painters--a chronology --
Theatre --
Graphic Design --
Russian futurist books and the development of avant-garde painting.
Includes chronological listing of the books with Russian titles, select bibliography, and index.